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A perfectly spiced applesauce bread made with homemade applesauce. This simple bread can be oven-ready in just a couple of minutes. Perfect with a steamy cup of coffee.

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I recently made a Herb Pork with Roasted Applesauce for Go Bold with Butter that was this year’s annual fall dinner. Instead of my usual applesauce recipe, I tried roasting the apples first and it creates a deeper flavor because the sugar caramelizes a bit in the oven so it’s almost like caramel. I love it. I had some leftover and decided to make a bread with the rest. My grandmother loves a sweet bread and I knew that my aunt that was visiting this weekend could give it to her on her way home from my house. This bread keeps really well (and also freezes beautifully) so I knew that it would still be good when it made it to her.

I’ve made this a few times and it is so easy, that I’ve been able to get it in the oven while I’m in the middle of making dinner. Ava has even made this bread on her own. Serve with a little bit of butter (I like to toast mine) and a steamy cup of coffee.

My mom used to work in a flower shop and can do incredible things with a grocery store bunch of flowers. I do not share her gift. I would lob off the ends, and jam them into a vase. Which is a waste, and honestly, I always have fresh flowers in my house. She was here last weekend and I paid attention to how she makes beautiful arrangements out of a $9.99 bunch of flowers. I am proud to say that I made this arrangement all. by. myself. I am ridiculously proud of how these turned out. I used one bunch of $12.99 flowers from my local grocery store. I wish that I took a before picture.

What’s her trick?

When she takes the flowers out of the plastic, she separates them by like. She lines up everything on the counter and sorts by color. Start the arrangement with greens on the bottom. Add some of the bigger blooms and use them as the focal point. Then fill in with smaller flowers. Add some different heights and textures to keep it interesting. When all of the flowers are used fill in with some greens and move things around until it looks right on all sides. (This part is important, you look at flowers at 360°.)

Applesauce Spice Bread

I like my bread to be pretty spicy, so I am heavy handed with the cinnamon and warm spices. If you are using a jarred sauce, I would add more cinnamon or a <g class=”gr_ gr_90 gr-alert gr_spell undefined ContextualSpelling multiReplace” id=”90″ data-gr-id=”90″>high quality</g> apple pie spice (King Arthur had a good one).

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Hi Bree,
My name is Lisa Melnick. Our husbands know each other. A mutual friend told me about your sweet blog and I have been reading it lately and wanted to say hi. I loved your post about changing directions and I agree that the middle ground of parenting can be a bit of a mine field . I’m with you on the middle school challenges.
I just wanted to say hi.
Lisa Melnick